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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

2. (v.) imp. of Weep.

3. (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.

4. (v. i.) To lament; to complain.

5. (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.

6. (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

7. (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.

8. (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.

9. (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.


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